NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes. It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist.
In Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, Apple introduced a new system startup program called launchd. The launchd daemon takes over many tasks from cron, xinetd, mach_init, and init, which are UNIX programs that traditionally have handled system initialization, called systems scripts, run startup items, and generally prepared the system for the user. And they still exist on Mac OS X Tiger, but launchd has superseded them in many instances. These venerable programs are widely used by system administrators, open source developers, managers of web services, even consumers who want to use cron to manage iCal scheduling, and they can still be called with launchd. The launchd daemon also provides a big performance boost to your system. At any given time, only those daemons that are actually used are launched
The Boot Process From the moment a user turns on a Mac OS X system to beyond the time the login window appears, Mac OS X executes a boot sequence that readies the system for use. If you provide system services to all users, you might need to execute some code during this process. The following sections explain the basic boot sequence and the places where your code can tie into it.
Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server have been designed to fit into existing enterprise directory services. Appleâ„¢’s extensible Open Directory architecture integrates with standards-based LDAP directory services, including Sun JAVA Enterprise Directory Server a
The NTFS-3G driver is a freely and commercially available and supported read/write NTFS driver for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 file systems. NTFS-3G develops, quality tests and supports a trustable, feature rich and high performance solution for hardware platforms and operating systems whose users need to reliably interoperate with NTFS. The driver is used by millions of computers, consumer electronics devices for reliable data exchange, and referenced in more than 30 computer books. Please see our test methods and testimonials on the driver quality page.
Using AppleJack, you can repair your disk, repair permissions, validate the system's preference files, and get rid of possibly corrupted cache files. In most cases, these operations can help get your machine back on track.
I initially wrote SirAdmin as a diagnostic tool, so that when users reported problems with certain mailboxes, my IT support staff who were not comfortable with the command line interface of cyradm could assign themselves an ACL to view such mailboxes in their own email client in order to quickly diagnose whether the reported problem was server-side or client-side.
Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server have been designed to fit into existing enterprise directory services. Appleâ„¢’s extensible Open Directory architecture integrates with standards-based LDAP directory services, including Sun JAVA Enterprise Directory Server and IBM Directory Server, as well as with proprietary ones such as Microsoftâ„¢s Active Directory.
The second news item was the announcement of a German hacker Alexander Graf at the CCC-congress that he modified the popular open-source emulation software Qemu so it can run an unmodified Mac OS X instance on Linux, but since Qemu is portable, it should
Multiple Desktop Sessions on Mac OS X Tiger Multiple Desktop Sessions allow more than one person to use your Macintosh computer at the same time! In Panther (Mac OS 10.3), Apple introduced "Fast User Switching" which allowed additional users to log on to
If you like to monitor your system using age-old command line tools like uptime and top, you want the free GeekTool on your Mac. Today we'll cover how to automatically embed command output, text files and even monitoring images - like web site traffic cha
John Markoff, who hJohn Markoff, who has special access to Jobs, says Snow Leopard is about new approaches to parallel programming and GPU use. The "breakthrough" is to be powered by newly acquired PA Semi's Grand Central technology.as special acces
The world's fastest file manager for OS X. The world's most reliable file manager for OS X. The world's only 'Unix' file manager for OS X. Find yourself lost and frustrated with Finder? Find the alternatives too dated and too slow? Try Xfile - and take co